Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charistica | |
Charistica callichroma is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana and possibly Brazil (Amazonas).
The wingspan is 12-13 mm. The forewings are black with the base narrowly metallic-blue-green, extended as a thick streak along the dorsum to the middle. There are slender interrupted yellow transverse streaks between this streak and the costa at one-sixth and before the middle, and the space between them is traversed by a yellow costal line and subcostal and median streaks, alternating with narrow metallic-blue-green finely black-edged streaks, the yellow subcostal streak divided by a fine black line. There is a slender violet-leaden transverse median fascia, narrowly edged with black ground-colour, considerably expanded posteriorly beneath but not quite reaching the dorsum. The wing beyond this is wholly orange-red, except a yellow wedge-shaped mark on the costa beyond the median fascia, and a bright purple triangular patch extending over the termen with its apex reaching inwards in the disc nearly to the fascia. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males sometimes tinged with orange towards the subdorsal area, in females with he anterior two-thirds of the wing more or less wholly orange.